Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Directors

Robert D. Webb

Cast

Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Gilbert Roland, J. Carrol Naish

The story

Mike and Tony Petrakis are Greek American father and son sponge-diving entrepreneurs who find themselves in competition with the Rhys family, Conch fishermen who are prepared to resort to violence and threatening murder to maintain their established fishing grounds off the Gulf Coast of Florida. Run-ins between the two clans lead to an exchange of threats and all-out brawls. Further complications ensue when Tony Petrakis meets Gwyneth Rhys, and the two fall in love.

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